Shreveport-Bossier group urges slowdown on proposed LSU System changes

10:04 AM,
Nov. 1, 2012

LSU Health Shreveport would lose its chancellor under the proposed changes after 12 years of autonomy

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A coalition of Shreveport-Bossier City civic and business groups is asking LSU System supervisors to hold off on structural changes.

LSU Health Shreveport would lose its chancellor under the proposed changes after 12 years of autonomy. Instead, a vice president would report to a system official who oversees medical education and health care. LSUS would retain a chancellor.

Members of the newly formed Shreveport-Bossier Business Alliance for Higher Education will attend a special LSU Board of Supervisors meeting Friday to ask that LSU Health Shreveport retain a chancellor and local ...